NEWS and UPDATES

Church Ghost will be exhibiting at Cartoon Crossroads Columbus on September 20-21 in Columbus, Ohio. If you're in the area, come by and say hello. More information here.

A number of agents involved with Church Ghost (Aaron Lange, Dan Heyer, Colby Smith) have been regularly contributing art and writing to Justin Isis' Neo-Passéism Substack. "Capitalism, having appropriated all available physical markets, has moved on to conquering time. Its success can be measured by the extent to which we are trapped in numerous overlapping “era markets” running on commodified nostalgia. The cycle has accelerated, so that while a fallow period of ten to twenty years once preceded each sequence of revivals and remakes, the profitable gravity is now irresistible, and the 1980s—dragged back from the dead at the start of the millennium—show no sign of ending. This “capitalist time hole” has produced an eternal present, with no possibility of escape from its event horizon. Hauntology remains only a shadowy awareness of cancelled futures, and the deterioration of art results as “creatives” are expected to engage with recognizable “content” to expand vast corporate franchises. The production mechanics of this “intellectual property” then become the governing principles of creation. The emotions of Neo-Passéists overflow into these tired vessels, and the final result is a sort of constipated myth cycle, the promise of various dithering apocalypses that never fully arrive. With this new feudalism of film franchises, fiction series from corporate publishing houses, and repetitive gallery shows displaying the artists of the past (all of it presided over by the academic guilds), we have reached an entirely medieval age." Read more here.

Original art pages from Aaron Lange's Ain't It Fun and Peppermint Werewolf: Murkstave are currently available for purchase. For more information and a complete list, click here.